Detective Superintendent Brent Warren said the girl did not receive hospital treatment following the incident in late February.

"Once we investigated and started asking questions about what happened and talking to the young people involved, it became clear that yes there was some sexualised talking and some sexualised behaviour," he said.

"[It was] the kind of incident that we have to refer onto other people to provide a more therapeutic involvement.

"We're more concerned about seeing what's going on in children's background warrants sexual behaviour - whether the home environment is safe as well."

He said the incident was brought to the attention of the child abuse taskforce by a concerned parent.

"A concerned parent actually helped bring that story out in the first place," he said.

If she was white it would be on the national media: Chief Minister

On Tuesday, Mr Giles labelled the media racist for apparently neglecting a story about the alleged rape of a young child at Hidden Valley town camp in Alice Springs.

He said it was "disgusting" the issue was not given more coverage in the media.

Three days later, however, Mr Giles moved to clarify these comments.

"It wasn't so much about the media. The media did their reporting," he told 105.7 ABC Darwin.

"It's more about how as a community we can accept this as a part of normality and, as I said, if it was a white girl, blonde-haired, blue eyes, it would be on the national media.

"But that's not a reflection on the media ... you know it's a reflection on community on how we just accept this."

The child was allegedly dragged into scrubland while walking home and sexually assaulted.